Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.